Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xviii
... , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern cult- ure , and also a striking picture of the suf- ferings which beset the sterility of genius : These two xviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern cult- ure , and also a striking picture of the suf- ferings which beset the sterility of genius : These two xviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page xx
... perfect example available of a certain vari- ety of the modern mind . Amongst ourselves , although the Journal has attracted the attention of all who keep a vigilant eye on the progress of foreign literature , and although one or two ...
... perfect example available of a certain vari- ety of the modern mind . Amongst ourselves , although the Journal has attracted the attention of all who keep a vigilant eye on the progress of foreign literature , and although one or two ...
Page xlviii
... perfect security . He awakened in us but one regret ; we could not understand how it was a man so richly gifted produced noth- ing , or only trivialities . ' - In these last words of M. Scherer's we have xlviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... perfect security . He awakened in us but one regret ; we could not understand how it was a man so richly gifted produced noth- ing , or only trivialities . ' - In these last words of M. Scherer's we have xlviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page lii
... perfect , a more and more exhaustive , formula . Not this study or that study , not this detail or that , but the whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infi- nite , the Absolute , alone had value or real- ity . In his own words ...
... perfect , a more and more exhaustive , formula . Not this study or that study , not this detail or that , but the whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infi- nite , the Absolute , alone had value or real- ity . In his own words ...
Page lviii
... perfect possession . And I abhor useless regrets and repentances . ' It is the same , at bottom , with his profes- sorial work . He protects the intellectual freedom , as it were , of his students with Iviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... perfect possession . And I abhor useless regrets and repentances . ' It is the same , at bottom , with his profes- sorial work . He protects the intellectual freedom , as it were , of his students with Iviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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